State of Israel

Large-scale Intimidation Against Arabs on Election Day Shows Israeli Law Must Be Changed

The demands that have been made of Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit to investigate the use of video cameras at polling places in Arab communities are justified. The cameras were brought into the polling places on Election Day last Tuesday by polling place workers representing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Source: Haaretz

PR Firm Behind Likud's Hidden Cameras in Arab Polling Sites Boasts of Lowering Voter Turnout

Netanyahu's party placed 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab polling stations on Election Day, 'We managed to lower the voter turnout to under 50 percent, the lowest in recent years!' firm boasts on Facebook

Source: Haaretz

Israel’s third largest  bank, Mizrahi Tefahot, agreed to pay $195 million to the United States to settle charges that the bank knowingly aided tax evasion
by US citizens from 2002 until 2012.

Israel’s largest bank, Leumi paid a $400 million dollar fine for similar “criminal activity” that spanned the period from at least 2000 to 2011. Hapoalim,
Israel’s second largest bank is presently negotiating a settlement with the US Justice Department.

The total settlement from all three banks will amount to over $1 billion.

As conceded by the banks, these tax avoidance schemes have been going on for decades. Israel’s Supervisor of Banks, Hedva Ber, noted the longevity of this practice: “Twenty years ago, Israeli banks did not ask customers about the source of their money and did not ask if they had paid taxes or not.” But the issue is not limited to banks failing to inquire about the of funds, these admissions of actively aiding tax evasion show that

“Israeli banks…..for decades helped Diaspora Jews evade taxes and launder money on a major scale”

Source: EVE MYKYTYN

Matt Lee
@APDiploWriter
56 min.
"#Israel court orders expulsion of Human Rights Watch director"

https://apnews.com/dd8c6110726d48b88dc3af866148ba90

#Israel kidnapped a severely sick 13 year old boy and left him handcuffed with no water until he fell into a coma and went blind.

He’s one of Ahed Tamimi’s relatives, they have a vendetta against this family.

These are the values Ben Shapiros refers to.pic.twitter.com/lPCDyAlYyE

— Partisangirl (@Partisangirl) 17. dubna 2019

Ian56‏ @Ian56789 · 24 min.

Declassified: Israel Made Sure Arabs Couldn't Return to Their Villages

https://outline.com/VrcPEq

https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2019/05/26/the-selling-of-the-israeli-surveillance-state/

"I delivered this paper last month at the UC Berkeley conference, Virtual Internment: Islamophobia, Surveillance and Unequal Citizenship. It was sponsored by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project directed by Hatem Bazian. The video of my talk is posted here.

Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus specializes in developing cyber-technology, surveillance methods, disinformation, and outright intimidation in order to police political speech relating to Israel-Palestine. The forms this takes are myriad: from technology companies developing malware to spy on human rights activists, to the IDF’s Unit 8200 using signals intelligence technology to spy on Palestinians, to data-mining technology enabling Israeli authorities to police vast swaths of social media. All designed to ferret out so-called security threats to the State.

The effects of this repressive apparatus are felt far beyond Israel and Palestine. Techniques and products developed in Israel are sold via the country’s military export apparatus to some of the most brutal nations in the world, and used in these countries’ own battles against human rights activists."